How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 2006 / Active

Garye L. Vasquez

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Garye L. Vasquez is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1958 · age 68
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Vasquez authored 111 published opinions for the court (2006–2017), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Jordan C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (360 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 57 of these were attributed to Vasquez by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2009	Jordan C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	219 P.3d 296	360
2010	Raymond F. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	231 P.3d 377	221
2010	Braillard v. Maricopa County	232 P.3d 1263	112
2010	Blair v. Burgener	245 P.3d 898	101
2011	Continental Lighting & Contracting, Inc. v. Premier Grading & Utilities, LLC	258 P.3d 200	72
2011	State of Arizona v. Mark Noriki Kasic†	228 Ariz. 228	67
2006	State v. King	146 P.3d 1274	48
2016	Ader v. Estate of Felger†	240 Ariz. 32	44
2008	State v. Ortega	206 P.3d 769	43
2013	State of Arizona v. George Benjamin Larin†	233 Ariz. 202	41
2009	State v. PAREDES-SOLANO	222 P.3d 900	38
2014	The ESTATE OF JOSEFA U. DeCAMACHO v. LA SOLANA CARE AND REHAB, INC.†	234 Ariz. 18	37
2010	Thompson v. Pima County	243 P.3d 1024	35
2014	Bennett Blum, M.D., Inc. v. Cowan Law Office of Rand Haddock†	235 Ariz. 204	34
2015	State of Arizona v. Penny Ann West†	238 Ariz. 482	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Garye L. Vasquez on?: Garye L. Vasquez is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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20 years on the Court of Appeals of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).